Kai Epstude

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
50 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Kai Epstude is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Applied Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Epstude has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Social Psychology, 21 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 21 papers in Applied Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kai Epstude's work include Behavioral Health and Interventions (20 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (11 papers). Kai Epstude is often cited by papers focused on Behavioral Health and Interventions (20 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (12 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (11 papers). Kai Epstude collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Kai Epstude's co-authors include Neal J. Roese, Thomas Mussweiler, Susanne Scheibe, Linda Steg, Ayça Berfu Ünal, Sabine Otten, Jens Förster, Rachel Smallman, Mike Morrison and Florian Fessel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Brain Research.

In The Last Decade

Kai Epstude

48 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Functional Theory of Counterfactual Thinking

2008 569 citations Kai Epstude, Neal J. Roese Personality and Social Psychology Review profile →
Face masks reduce emotion-recognition accuracy and perceived closeness

2021 170 citations Kai Epstude, Susanne Scheibe et al. PLoS ONE profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Epstude Netherlands	21	822	699	674	632	437	50	2.3k
Loran F. Nordgren United States	26	778 0.9×	831 1.2×	886 1.3×	604 1.0×	526 1.2×	43	3.0k
Karen Gasper United States	18	904 1.1×	475 0.7×	794 1.2×	777 1.2×	504 1.2×	39	2.2k
Abigail A. Scholer United States	25	724 0.9×	651 0.9×	374 0.6×	497 0.8×	974 2.2×	73	2.1k
Jane L. Risen United States	19	1.1k 1.4×	675 1.0×	820 1.2×	347 0.5×	279 0.6×	41	2.3k
Yoav Bar‐Anan Israel	22	1.0k 1.3×	1.3k 1.9×	607 0.9×	425 0.7×	595 1.4×	56	2.6k
Hal E. Hershfield United States	25	916 1.1×	548 0.8×	385 0.6×	757 1.2×	661 1.5×	62	2.6k
Keith D. Markman United States	24	664 0.8×	732 1.0×	562 0.8×	587 0.9×	722 1.7×	45	2.5k
Annette Y. Lee-Chai United States	7	989 1.2×	1.1k 1.6×	521 0.8×	365 0.6×	590 1.4×	11	2.1k
Emily Balcetis United States	20	679 0.8×	641 0.9×	766 1.1×	404 0.6×	352 0.8×	65	1.8k
Steven J. Stroessner United States	21	1.3k 1.6×	1.2k 1.8×	498 0.7×	472 0.7×	456 1.0×	40	2.5k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kai Epstude

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Epstude, Kai, et al.. (2025). Multiple goal salience and emotion regulation in negative-feedback situations: A latent profile analysis. Personality and Individual Differences. 239. 113113–113113.

Fennis, Bob M., et al.. (2024). Source credibility effects in misinformation research: A review and primer. University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology). 2(1). e443610–e443610. 2 indexed citations

Epstude, Kai, et al.. (2024). Whether and how to regulate: Emotion regulation in negative-feedback situations.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 153(5). 1281–1308. 3 indexed citations

Kreienkamp, Jannis, et al.. (2023). The Migration Experience: A Conceptual Framework and Systematic Scoping Review of Psychological Acculturation. Personality and Social Psychology Review. 28(1). 81–116. 9 indexed citations

Epstude, Kai, et al.. (2023). Should I have been more careful or less careless? The comparative nature of counterfactual thoughts alters judgments of their impact. Cognition. 235. 105402–105402. 3 indexed citations

Kreienkamp, Jannis, Maximilian Agostini, Laura F. Bringmann, Peter de Jonge, & Kai Epstude. (2023). Need Fulfillment During Intergroup Contact: Three Experience Sampling Studies. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 51(6). 1047–1077. 3 indexed citations

Epstude, Kai, Daniel A. Effron, & Neal J. Roese. (2022). Polarized imagination: partisanship influences the direction and consequences of counterfactual thinking. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1866). 20210342–20210342. 3 indexed citations

Winter, Kevin & Kai Epstude. (2022). Motivational consequences of counterfactual mindsets: Does counterfactual structure influence the use of conservative or risky tactics?. Motivation and Emotion. 47(1). 100–114. 5 indexed citations

Scheibe, Susanne, et al.. (2020). When Ignoring Negative Feedback Is Functional: Presenting a Model of Motivated Feedback Disengagement. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 30(1). 3–10. 24 indexed citations

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Smallman, Rachel, et al.. (2020). Dispositional optimism weakly predicts upward, rather than downward, counterfactual thinking: A prospective correlational study using episodic recall. PLoS ONE. 15(8). e0237644–e0237644. 5 indexed citations

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Kutlaca, Maja, Martijn van Zomeren, & Kai Epstude. (2020). Friends or foes? How activists and non-activists perceive and evaluate each other. PLoS ONE. 15(4). e0230918–e0230918. 19 indexed citations

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Eisma, Maarten C., et al.. (2020). Upward and Downward Counterfactual Thought After Loss: A Multiwave Controlled Longitudinal Study. Behavior Therapy. 52(3). 577–593. 19 indexed citations

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Ünal, Ayça Berfu, et al.. (2012). Blocking-out auditory distracters while driving: A cognitive strategy to reduce task-demands on the road. Accident Analysis & Prevention. 50. 934–942. 21 indexed citations

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Corcoran, Katja, et al.. (2011). Fast similarities: Efficiency advantages of similarity-focused comparisons.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 37(5). 1280–1286. 14 indexed citations

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Epstude, Kai & Neal J. Roese. (2011). When Goal Pursuit Fails. Social Psychology. 42(1). 19–27. 61 indexed citations

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Mussweiler, Thomas & Kai Epstude. (2009). Relatively fast! Efficiency advantages of comparative thinking.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 138(1). 1–21. 82 indexed citations

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Fessel, Florian, Kai Epstude, & Neal J. Roese. (2009). Hindsight bias redefined: It’s about time. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 110(1). 56–64. 20 indexed citations

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Förster, Jens, et al.. (2009). Why Love Has Wings and Sex Has Not: How Reminders of Love and Sex Influence Creative and Analytic Thinking. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. 35(11). 1479–1491. 53 indexed citations

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Keil, Andreas, Thomas Mussweiler, & Kai Epstude. (2006). Alpha-band activity reflects reduction of mental effort in a comparison task: A source space analysis. Brain Research. 1121(1). 117–127. 41 indexed citations

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Mussweiler, Thomas, et al.. (2004). The Ups and Downs of Social Comparison: Mechanisms of Assimilation and Contrast.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 87(6). 832–844. 266 indexed citations

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